How do you use Maschine in your workflow

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For me at times it's "go back to guitar" my original sketch pad. Irony here is that my current fav is my '52 Tele reissue. The first mass produced bit of plug in hardware. Problem is that after a bit I come up with something I like and the circle begins again.

 

All I've done is use it in standalone for now. I don't even have a DAW yet, but will get one sometime this year probably. Until then, there is so much to learn about Maschine that for me, doing anything other than just using it in standalone would be counter-productive. It exceeds my abilities, so I don't need anything else.... yet.

 

I'd recommend continuing to use Maschine in standalone only and to finish and really polish off some tracks. One day eventually you'll have a moment of realization that you need something else (i.e. a DAW) to do the things Maschine can't do or that it can't do very well. I admit maschine in its standalone environment is really a special place that you'll learn a lot and become one with the hands-on hardware experience, but once you break out of that shell and get into a DAW that you understand, you'll definitely realize where Maschine's shortcomings are. This said, I'll probably be bashed for this post somehow.

 

That's the plan. Maschine can certainly handle everything I need to do from an instrumentation perspective for the foreseeable future. When I mentioned I'll probably get a DAW later this year, that's strictly for the vocal side of the music, and I already know Maschine will not work for that.

 

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For hip hop I use it as a stand-alone. Arrange in maschine and clean it up logic


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Maschine for me is like a pre-mix DAW. I use it to compose the music and effects, then track the audio through my mixer into Reaper.

I also use Maschine as a MIDI HQ, I trigger abbey road and drumlab with my e-drums, I have various controllers dedicated to FX and keyboards. I will send out MIDI commands to my guitar and vocal equipment so the band doesn't have to worry about shoegazing.

Apparently I must be using Maschine as intended because NI have always marketed it as some kind of hybrid instrument. But it still confuses me as to why the performance functions are sorely lacking, I can only assign one CC to one parameter, and I cannot alter the mix & max values. Snapshots were a great addition however and have really helped me out.

 

Pretty much like this guy said, but in summary: Make ideas in Maschine and sequence them in scenes so the arrangement is parallel to the daw timeline moving linear (left to right). Drag out stems later when arrangement is concrete to apply automation for individual patterns. If you can manage to get the desired production result without dragging out, then you have a daw space free for vocals, transition fx, experimentation. With a powerful computer, its a breeze. He didn't say it straight (of course not), but we can read between the lines with our own ears and experience.

 

Pretty much the same.

 

I agree with all the posts here.. D One made a nice tutorial on howto in a daw which work but still to do all just to get outs was a hassle.. one thing please stop saying standalone! It is not a standalone hardware..lmao.. its a controller that needs software.. now never mind keep going

 

i do that for some performances when i want it to be simple and only live

 

I make some patterns.
Put some together and play around with scene mode.
I use it like an groovebox.

For recording stuff i use guitar rig.
Witch i use also as an end effect some com eq etc.

An other daw i almost don't use.
Sometimes is just needed for an daw.

Best Regards yah all.